What is the point of "spend spend spend" without a strategy and top-down direction to it? All we seem to care about in the US is "jobs". Generic jobs. Workin

What is the point of "spend spend spend" without a strategy and top-down direction to it? All we seem to care about in the US is "jobs". Generic jobs. Working class low wage jobs. Whatever jobs gets the public off a politician's back. Not a lot of focus on whether those are useful jobs in long run, or strategically important jobs. Or we seem to end up after "spend spend spend" with some new financial derivative products, people employed to buy/sell them to each other (paid handsomely), and people who are left on the sidelines who didn't get to participate mostly. At least other countries (I'm looking at Asia), less free and dictatorial they may be, decide what industries to make a strategic national priority and go after it.